Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Nathan Fielder
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
Laura Linney
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
Jack Kent Cooke
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
Bao Dai
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
Patrick Dempsey
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
Garry Hynes
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
Vikram Seth
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Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
Frances McDormand
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There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
Abbey Lincoln
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.
Zarin Mehta
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Thug: This is a stickup! Now come on. Your money or your life.
Jack Benny
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Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, 'That were to consider it too curiously.'
Randall Jarrell
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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.
Karen Blixen
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Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.
Darren L Johnson
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If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
Madame de La Fayette
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I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know.
Kris Kristofferson
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My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
Adam Rapp
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The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.
Angelina Jolie
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe